Tombstone's Treasure: Silver Mines and Golden Saloons - Sherry Monahan is an authority on "the city that wouldn't die" and its history. In Tombstone's Treasure, she focuses on the silver mines, one reason for the city's founding, and the saloons, the other reason the city grew so quickly.

Tombstone's Treasure:
Silver Mines and Golden Saloons
Written by Sherry Monahan

Sherry Monahan is an authority on "the city that wouldn't die" and its history. In Tombstone's Treasure, she focuses on the silver mines, one reason for the city's founding, and the saloons, the other reason the city grew so quickly.

When the discovery of silver at Tombstone first became known in mid-1880, there were about twenty-six saloons and breweries. By July of the following year, the number of saloons in Tombstone had doubled. The most popular saloon games of the time were faro, monte, and poker, with some offering keno, roulette, and twenty-one.

Monahan shares true tales about Tombstone's mining and gambling history and describes a different time and locale where wealthy businesspeople and rugged miners rubbed elbows at the bar and gambled side by side.

“It is both shocking and enlightening to learn just how sophisticated Tombstone really was when the Earps, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo, and Curly Bill strode the boardwalks. Tombstone actually had telephones, ice cream parlors, coffee shops, a bowling alley, and a swimming pool. Wow! It is so contrary to the Hollywood version of the town . . . but it's absolutely true."--from the Foreword by Bob Boze Bell

Sherry Monahan has done it again – in ‘Tombstone’s Treasure: Silver Mines & Golden Saloons’, she shows the true heart and pioneering spirit of the ‘Town Too Tough to Die’. Tombstone was a far cry from being a ‘tent city’ as fortune seekers flocked into town after the discovery of silver. Home to a variety of colorful and enterprising characters, Tombstone put itself on the map as a fully functioning established city, boasting fine saloons serving quality spirits, quality entertainment with piano music and variety shows, gambling and saloon games, sporting activities, and the most eloquent of cocktails to wash it all down! Lisa D. Smith, Southwest Blend Magazine

About Sherry Monahan - ‘Tombstone’s Treasure: Silver Mines & Golden Saloons’ was originally published by the University of New Mexico Press in April 2007. Sherry Monahan is the author of a number of books including ‘Taste of Tombstone – A Hearty Helping of History’; ‘The Wicked West: Boozers, Cruisers, Gamblers and More’; ‘Pikes Peak: Adventurers, Communities & Lifestyles’ which received the 2002 AASLH Finalist Award; ‘Self-Guided Walking Tour of Tombstone’. She is also the contributing editor for True West Magazine; 2007 & 2008 VP-Marketing - Women Writing the West; and the Historical Consultant for the movie "The Territory”. You can catch also see her on the 2007 Lost Worlds episode called, Sin City of the West on the History Channel, and she has appeared on the Wild West Tech series in the Gold Rush Tech and Gambling Tech shows. You can also catch her in the Investigating History series in the Wyatt Earp episode.